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Command Authority opening line: The flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics flew high above the Kremlin in a rain shower, a red-and-gold banner waving under a gray sky. I think everyone in the world who has read …more ♥

The recipe book headlines with the promise of providing simple and delectable home cooking recipes and is divided into breakfast, morning tea, condiments, home-cooked meals, restaurant food made easy, savoury snacks and sweets. First off I have to state that …more ♥

Save Yourself opening line: Patrick worked the day shift at Zoney’s GoMart one Wednesday a month: sealed into the vacuum-packed chill behind the convenience store’s dirty plate-glass windows, watching cars zoom by on the highway while he stood still. What …more ♥

The Husband’s Secret opening line: Poor, poor Pandora. Does the truth really set you free? In this book we discover that the truth can harm and hurt and that the truth can result in peace and absolution. Centered around St. Angela’s …more ♥

My Husband Next Door Opening Line: The first time I knew I was in any sort of trouble was this time last year, when I ran out of church, disastrous flowers in my hands, straight into Ludo. This is a …more ♥

Tell No Lies Opening line: The ridiculous thread count made the new sheets feel like warm butter, which is why Daniel had been luxuriating in them since the faux church bells of his alarm had chimed five minutes earlier. …more ♥

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst Opening line: It was so early not even the devil had managed to put on his shoes. The story revolves around a rape and the lengths a father will go to, to take revenge. …more ♥

I seem to have got stuck with my cook book reviews and my undoing was taking a year to review Tom Kitchin’s From Nature To Plate. I though that once I had finished that book I would be able to tackle …more ♥

The Carriage House opening line: From the time that his daughters could lift their rackets, William had loved nothing more than to watch them play tennis. The book is about the Adair family and two would be lovers. William …more ♥

Mad About You opening line: I pulled a heavy box marked Miscellaneous towards me and peered inside. Emma is being stalked and for all appearances the stalker is the woman who is having an affair with her husband. Will this …more ♥

The Dinner opening line: We were going out to dinner. The setting for this book is Amsterdam and it revolves around a situation that exists between 2 couples. The men are brothers and it is something their children did which …more ♥

The Man From Berlin opening line: Reinhardt shuddered awake, again, clawing himself up from that dream, that nightmare of a winter field, the indolent drift of smoke and mist along the hummocked ground, the staccato line of the condemned and …more ♥

In April of 2012, Dave and I had the most amazing dining experience at The Kitchin in Edinburgh. Tom Kitchin was awarded his Michelin star 6 months after opening his restaurant in Leith when he was only 29. He and …more ♥

The Dying Hours opening line: How much blood? Suspicious suicides leads a former member of the murder squad to the conclusion that there is more to the deaths than meets the eye. Tom Thorne is back in uniform and it appears …more ♥

Waiting For Wednesday opening line: There was no sign of anything wrong. As part of my monthly pick from Penguin, I chose Waiting For Wednesday as the book blurb sounded like it would be interesting. It is a murder mystery …more ♥

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul opening line: It was a vibrant blue-skied Afghan morning, the kind that made Yazmina stop to loosen her scarf and tilt her face to the sun.+ I chose this book as I wanted to …more ♥

Whiskey Beach opening line: Through the chilly curtain of sleet, in the intermittent wash of the great light on the jutting cliff to the south, the massive silhouette of Bluff House loomed over Whiskey Beach. I think I have an obsession …more ♥

Blue Blood opening line: The pain cut into her wrists, and she couldn’t react because her hands were tied so tightly behind her back. This is the first Sara Blaedel book I have read and I must say, it won’t …more ♥

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I live in a cottage in Gordons Bay with my husband and our dogs. We are busy building our own house in between travelling overseas and running our own businesses. Click on the image to read more about me.